Link to Post:
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2013/06/painting-irl-2013-bushwick-open-studios.html
Sharon Butler photo blogs paintings from the BOS2013 - Bushwick Open Studios.
Butler's post features paintings by Corydon Cowansage, Enrico Gomez, Sharon Butler, Julia Schwartz, Peter Shear, Katherine Bradford, Brian Cypher, Michael Voss, Meg Atkinson, Mathieu Lefevre, Eve Lateiner, Ginny Casey, Erik den Breejen, and David McBride.
[UPDATE] Part Two of Butler's BOS2013 painting coverage is now online as well.
Link to Post:
http://contemporarydrawingsalon.blogspot.fr/2013/05/what-i-like-about-you-organized-by.html
Yifat Gat posts an interview with painter Julie Torres, curator of What I Like About You at Parallel Art Space. The exhibition which opens during Bushwick Open Studios weekend features a work by 19 international artists who have each selected an artist from Brooklyn to participate in the show.
Torres comments that "it never hurts to surround yourself with inspiring artists...... and LOTS of them. When a big group of wonderful people get together, the energy is palpable and the possibilities seem limitless. I think it makes my own work braver, less timid, and more joyful. It definitely gets me out of my own head. It's exhilarating. [The stylistic groupings] happened pretty organically... I naturally gravitate toward other painters, specifically those who radiate in a very human, very raw exuberant way. Since those are the artists I follow online, those are the folks I invited. Not everyone I invited could come, but it's a very exciting group. And because they are each selecting a Brooklyn artist to showcase, it will expand further from there."
The must-see exhibition includes work by Julie Alexander, Jamie Powell, Karl Bielik, Henry Samelson Valerie Brennan, Rodney Dickson, Brian Cypher, Michael Voss, Jack Davidson, Frank Holliday, Brian Edmonds, Patricia Satterlee, Justine Frischmann, Clinton King, Erin Lawlor, Lael Marshall, David T Miller, Brooke Moyse, Lucy Mink, Chris Moss, Sean Montgomery, Yadir Quintana, Melanie Parke, EJ Hauser, Julia Schwartz, Sharon Butler, Peter Shear, Katherine Bradford, Wilma Vissers, Tatiana Berg, Ian White Williams, Paul Behnke, Douglas Witmer, Alex Paik, Pier Wright, Lipke, Stephen Wright, Ky Anderson, Liz Ainslie, Lauren Collings, and Saira Mclaren.
Link to Post:
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2013/04/paris-multiplicity-of-simple.html
Sharon Butler posts installation photos from the exhibition Emergence at Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, on view through April 27, 2013. The show features works by Eve Aschheim, A.T Biltereyst, Katrin Bremermann, Sharon Butler, Claire Chesnier, Clem Crosby, Fieroza Doorsen, Amy Feldman, Yifat Gat, Kevin Monot, Erin Lawlor, Paul Pagk, Marine Pages, Andrew Seto, Radu Tuian, Richard Van der Aa, Don Voisine, and Michael Voss.
The exhibition, co-curated by Katrin Bremermann, Erin Lawlor, and Yifat Gat presents work that investigates "the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions."
Link to Post:
http://hyperallergic.com/63349/when-paintings-come-apart-sharon-butler-on-the-inside-out/
Thomas Micchelli interviews painter Sharon Butler about the work in her exhibition Precisionist Casual at Pocket Utopia, New York, on view through February 17, 2013.
Butler comments: "To be honest, I’m a little apprehensive that some viewers will have... a sense of condescension or even indignation towards the seeming lack of skill and effort involved. As the Met points out in the excellent Matisse show that’s now up, making something look effortless isn’t always easy. But it’s worth trying to do well, if that’s not too much of a paradox. I guess what interests me are the metaphorical possibilities of lethargy, bad decisions, mistake-making, and turning things inside out as reflected in a painting. From these things, I reckon there is quite a bit to infer about not merely how we perceive the world but how we live in it."
Link to Post:
http://www.paintersbread.com/2012/09/painting-how-you-feel-not-how-you-should.html
Michael Rutherford writes about a selection of painters whose instincts are leading them to make work beyond the limits of "the plane."
Rutherford writes: "Professional skateboarders have a saying, 'skate how you feel, not how you should,' and the most experimental and engaging artists have always operated just like that - working how they feel, not how they should. Currently, I see painters and others asserting their freedom and pushing the progression of painting in increasingly fresher ways. Specifically, I’m noticing more loosely hung, sometimes radically altered or reattached swaths of canvas (among other things) without need of being held taut and hung into place by stretchers. In other examples, the stretcher bars remain, but they’ve been reconfigured in diverse ways with vastly different intentions. But in the most arcane instances, paint has been applied to other objects altogether: utensils, detritus, you name it. It’s clear there’s no further pushing of the picture plane here, but some rather bracing yet energizing examples of painting post-plane."
Link to Post:
http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2012/06/studio-visit-with-sharon-butler.html
Paul Behnke photoblogs a studio visit with painter Sharon Butler.
Behnke writes that in Butler's work "a mental and technical exactness are displayed as an idea is explored with a deft layering of forms and line that shows the maker's mind at work. This rigor is very often contrasted with the impulsive way the work is presented - often on un-stretched linen, pinned to the wall, or with supporting stretchers partially exposed. The result is painting that often combines the frankness and intellect of the Conceptual, with the fragility, pictorial inventiveness, and longing of the Modern."
Link to Post:
http://newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/comingled-encounters-artist-relationships-at-season/
A conversation with Sharon Butler, Allison Manch and Robert Yoder on the occasion of two exhibitions: Squeeze Hard (Hold That Thought) work by Sharon Butler and Allison Manch at SEASON (through June 30, 2012) and Robert Yoder: DILF! at Platform Gallery (through June 16, 2012). Both galleries are located in Seattle, Washington.
Of the works at SEASON, Butler comments: "The primary attribute uniting our work is that we both craft carefully made objects that, in terms of their physical objectness, exude an aggressive nonchalance. Yes, at first glance, our work looks similar, but hanging it side-by-side also makes the differences more obvious. Where my paintings embody a Minimalist's ennui, Allison's embroideries manifest the raging torment of a jilted lover - a more Neo-Expressionist approach than Minimalist despite her spare use of materials. I'm energized seeing these paintings installed with Allison’s embroideries - it's like finding a treasure chest of new approaches and ideas."
![(detail) Mathieu Lefevre, Untitled [title unknown], 2011 (courtesy of the Estate](http://painters-table.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/mention-image-72x50/images/link-posts/feature/lefevre1d.jpg "(detail) Mathieu Lefevre, Untitled [title unknown], 2011 (courtesy of the Estate of Mathieu Lefevre)")
